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The Physics and History of Dynamics
The PEOPLE and STORIES behind the history and physics of dynamics
• HISTORY OF DYNAMICS
Timelines in the History and Physics of Dynamics (with links to primary texts)
Johann Bernoulli’s Brachistochrone
A Commotion in the Stars: The Legacy of Christian Doppler
The Solvay Debates: Einstein versus Bohr
Bohr’s Orbits
Who Invented the Quantum? Einstein vs. Planck
Science 1916: A Hundred-year Time Capsule
Karl Schwarzschild’s Radius: How Fame Eclipsed a Physicist’s own Legacy
George Stokes’ Law of Drag
Dirac: From Quantum Field Theory to Antimatter
The Three-Body Problem, Longitude at Sea, and Lagrange’s Points
The Iconic Eikonal and the Optical Path
Freeman Dyson’s Quantum Odyssey
Georg Duffing’s Equation
Top 10 Books to Read on the History of Dynamics
Feynman and the Dawn of QED
Physicists in Revolution: Arago, Riemann, Jacobi and Doppler
Chandrasekhar’s Limit
George Green’s Theorem
Dark Matter Mysteries
Wave-Particle Duality and Hamilton’s Physics
Huygens’ Tautochrone
Geometry as Motion
Descartes’ Odd Geometry
The Oxford Scholars
A Wealth of Motions: Six Generations in the History of the Physics of Motion
• CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY
Physics in the Age of Contagion. Part 3: Testing and Tracing COVID-19
Physics in the Age of Contagion. Part 2: The Second Wave of COVID-19
Physics in the Age of Contagion: The Bifurcation of COVID-19
Looking Under the Hood of the Generalized Stokes Theorem
Hermann Grassmann’s Nimble Wedge Product
Introduction to Modern Dynamics: Chaos, Networks, Space and Time
The Physics of Life, the Universe and Everything (In One Easy Equation)
How Number Theory Protects You from the Chaos of the Cosmos
Limit-Cycle Oscillators: The Fast and the Slow of Grandfather Clocks
Orbiting Photons around a Black Hole
How to Teach General Relativity to Undergraduate Physics Majors
Getting Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins Home from the Moon: Apollo 11 and the Three-Body Problem
Vladimir Arnold’s Cat Map
Biased Double-well Potential: Bistability, Bifurcation and Hysteresis
The Wonderful World of Hamiltonian Maps
Top 10 Topics of Modern Dynamics
How to Weave a Tapestry from Hamiltonian Chaos
• AT LIGHT SPEED
A Commotion in the Stars: The Legacy of Christian Doppler
Snell’s Law: The Five-Fold Way
The Iconic Eikonal and the Optical Path
Is the Future of Quantum Computing Bright?
Physics and the Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance
2018 Nobel Prize in Laser Physics
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